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Disc jockeys are meant to be heard not seen.  But these pictures from the Getty archives really do sum up a time and a place. Enjoy here, one of the launch pics from the opening of Radio 1 in 1967. Sir Tony staring into the camera lens, griping onto a pair of those funny BBC headphones. And what a…

The wind blows and shakes the rigid edifice with windows rattling, and the boughs of the trees outside wave their new grown leaves in a dance of elation.  There is strain and tension in the air, whilst the black birds launch themselves from the tops of the trees into the path of the wind to be buff…

U The regulator used to call you cheerily if you’d won a radio licence. The phone would ring at precisely the designated time and you’d duly jump and down with joy, and hug puzzled colleagues, if the news was good.  If the phone didn’t ring for a few moments, you anticipated the result was unlikely…

In our school, bringing in a radio was an offence for which you could be hanged. It was even more serious than wearing platform shoes or the wrong colour shirt.  Nevertheless, just as in totalitarian states, we ignored the law because radio meant so much. Admittedly, we only risked the wrath so we …

Here's a great interview question to pose to a candidate for a radio station MD post.  Your Head of News has rushed in to say they are about to carry a less than complimentary story about your biggest-spending advertiser.   The hungry journalist is insistent on its accuracy and relevance, just…

I calculate I have nineteen DAB radios.  It’s a little over the top I know.  Hats off to Hertfordshire’s Pure for doing some great early running on the sets; and to Yorkshire’s Roberts for their sturdy classics.  And to Psion for coming up with their spiky PC peripheral Wavefinder; and to Wayne Hem…